It's been quite some time since we've heard anything about the film adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's 2009 comic crime novel Inherent Vice, but yesterday a fan site of the director, Paul Thomas Anderson, who also wrote the adapted screenplay, has provided a few new details.
Warner Bros. will be financing the film, with production expected to begin later this month. Joaquin Phoenix has been widely reported to have been cast in the lead role of Doc Sportello — more about the book, below — though no information about casting was mentioned.
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Inherent Vice
Thomas Pynchon
It's been awhile since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. Easy for her to say. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that "love" is another of those words going around at the moment, like "trip" or "groovy", except that this one usually leads to trouble.
Despite which he soon finds himself drawn into a bizarre tangle of motives and passions whose cast of characters includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, a tenor sax player working undercover, an ex-con with a swastika tattoo and a fondness for Ethel Merman, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists.
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